You can fuck right off and you know who you are.

Seriously, what is your major malfunction? Is it because you're envious? Insecure? Crowing about our comparative Amazon ranks on Facebook and Twitter - how childish is that? Is being an author just not as exciting or relevant as you imagined it would be? Welcome to the real world, sister.

If you can't see the value in a diversity of voices being recognised as those of genuine women - not ONLY yours - then honey, you have a lot to learn about both feminism and empowerment, the sort of knowledge that comes from deep and radical living, not parroting some shite you saw on the flyleaf of a Germaine Greer two years ago.

And what you can't seem to handle - really, can't handle at all - is that at the heart of it we're on the same side.

That is right. You are on the same side as the whore, because we are both writing about modern women and the choices they make, and why. I write about sex, real sex, and money changing hands doesn't make it less real than yours. The ways in which people use and abuse sex, how women use sexuality and what it does - or doesn't - do to their lives as a result. I am as entitled to do so as you are.

But it is far easier, it would seem, to attack what you refuse to understand. Which is a pity because infighting only serves those on the outside who would put all women's sexuality into a pretty little box.

What I write about is something every depiction of prostitution in this country in recent years has not been permitted to say. There will be no comeuppance. There will be no guilt and shame. And most importantly, there will be no white goddamn knight. Sounds a little like your memoir on dating and mating, no?

Myself, personally, I am enjoying life. Neither in spite of nor because of my past but because I choose to. It is a happy and productive place right now and while an unprovoked attack like yours is unwelcome, it isn't going to keep me up nights. There are other things doing that job at the moment...

Because the series had to pull its punches at the crucial moments, because no one else wants to say these things, I can: I will. I am unrepentant. I make no apologies for my past or what I write. And my future will be no worse than yours as a result.